Chapter 4

                                    

                                          
Hey everyone! We're getting close to the big reunion... :) I know it's been a little over a week since I last posted a chapter- sorry about that- but things got hectic pretty quickly for me and I was doing some last minute edits, etc of this chapter before I posted it. The next chapter has about 5k words so far, and each chapter has averaged around 6-7k words, and I just have a few scenes left of the chapter to write, so I should be able to finish that pretty quickly, and then I had already skipped ahead and finished chapter 6 before this.
Things got hectic for me really quick though because I leave to move into college in... 4 days. That is insanely wild to me, considering I started writing in freshman year of high school and here I am now, about to be a freshman in college. It's actually quite terrifying and I have no idea what I'm doing, but I do plan to get this out and finished by the time I start. Hopefully I get around to finishing chapter 5 in the next few days, but if not, I'll just finish writing it on the car ride to my college (I'll have like 12 hours so it'll be plenty of time). Anyways that's enough about me, hopefully y'all enjoy what I have here.
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The days turned to weeks, and still the thought of the man? kid? (he can't have been older than 22) named Peter by May's graveside bothered him. Happy sighed as he ran his hand wearily down his face. He knew it shouldn't, really, there were a lot of people whose lives had been touched by May's kindness. In fact, he was glad that strangers were coming to see her- the more people touched by her, the more people left to keep her memory alive. But it didn't feel right to call Peter a stranger; while his face didn't look familiar to Happy at all, something inside him tugged and curled protectively in the kid's presence, like his body was trying to tell him to remember. He wished he'd asked for Peter's last name, then- maybe it would have spurned a memory and stopped this unpleasant pervading sense of forgetfulness.
After being Tony's bodyguard for many years, Happy had gotten attuned to recognizing and storing faces in his mind, lest they become a potential threat. He'd be the first to admit his memory hadn't stayed particularly sharp as he'd aged, but it still felt like something was scratching at the corners of his mind whenever he thought of Peter's face. Like he was missing the bigger picture, one that should be easy to recognize. 
Happy groaned and dropped his head into his hands. How had the kid even known May, anyways? He thought back to their introduction, Peter mentioning that he'd known May through Spider-Man. Something lit up in his mind. He knew Spider-Man, quite well in fact, the kid's name was- it was-
His train of thought screeched to a halt and he frowned in confusion. He'd felt a moment of clarity, for a second there, almost like he had known Spider-Man's true name at one point. He frowned, pushing back further into his memory, catching glimpses of brown hair and crooked smiles and a youthful laugh, but despite his best efforts, he couldn't put a name or face to Spider-Man. It was like his brain was running in circles around him, dangling a memory tantalizingly just above him- but Happy hadn't played capture the flag in years, and any effort on his part was fruitless.
He sank into the chair beneath him, brows furrowed, fingers tapping against the armrest. Maybe if he could just remember where and how he first met Spider-Man, he'd remember. And if he remembered Spider-Man, maybe he'd remember who Peter was, too. (He wasn't sure why remembering the kid felt so urgent and important to him, but every instinct in him seemed to flare up at the thought, and if May was important to Peter, at least to some degree- well, then, they'd have something in common).
Tap tap. He rhythmically continued to tap on the armrest, delving further into his thoughts. He'd been introduced to Spider-Man by Tony- wait, that couldn't have been right? But yes, it was. He was introduced to Spider-Man (in a different getup than he currently had) and told to be his... driver. Chaperone. For the Battle of Germany.